How to Enable or Disable Copilot Chat Saving in Windows 11
Controlling whether Windows 11 saves your Copilot chats keeps your AI history private across devices. Here’s how to turn that feature on or off.
Open Copilot, click your profile icon, select Settings, then Chat. Check or uncheck “Automatically save chats” to enable or disable chat saving and history syncing across devices.
Why use this feature?
Copilot chat saving in Windows 11 lets you keep a record of your AI conversations. This makes past chats accessible on any device you’re signed into.
What happens when you are done?
Disabling history stops the AI from storing future conversations in your linked account, though past chats remain until deleted. This setting controls whether your chat history is kept or deleted after you’re done using the assistant.
Pressing Win+C opens the built-in chatbot. Recent updates let you resize and move the window just like any desktop app, and the icon sits firmly pinned to the Taskbar for quick launching.
How to change your chat saving settings
Toggling chat history takes a few clicks inside the app’s settings menu. Opening the interface and heading straight to preferences lets you make the choice without digging through sub-menus.
- First, open the Copilot app.
- Click your profile picture or the “Sign in” icon at the top right corner of the Copilot window.
- Select Settings from the menu.
- Click on Chat.
On the Chat settings page, you will see a box labeled “Automatically save chats.”
- To turn it on: Check the box.
- To turn it off: Uncheck the box.
That completes the process.
Summary
By default, Copilot chat saving in Windows 11 lets you see past conversations on any device. However, turning it off provides an extra layer of privacy.
Does Microsoft Copilot save your chats?
Signed-in accounts allow Copilot to remember past conversations, let you access them, and pick up where you left off. Copilot retains the last 18 months of interactions in your conversation history.
Where are Copilot Chat files stored?
Files uploaded to the chat route directly into a user's OneDrive for Business as part of standard enterprise data protection.
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